English

Proper noun

Culver

1. A surname​.

Derived terms

• Culver's physic
• Culver's root

English

Noun

culver ‎(plural culvers)

1. (British dialect, poetic) A dove or pigeon.
2. (now Britain, south and east dialect) A dove, now specifically of the species Columba palumbus.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:

     Had he so doen, he had him snatcht away, / More light then Culuer in the Faulcons fist.

   • 1885, The book of the thousand nights and a night Vol. 5, Richard Burton:

     a culver of the forest, that is to say, a wood-pigeon.

3. A culverin.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     Falcon and culver on each tower / Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower.

Synonyms

• wood pigeon

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